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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on August 25, 2015 at 12:28pm

Lot of lookers but no opinions.

Waiting to see what may precipitate myself.

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Permalink Reply by MJ on August 25, 2015 at 1:12pm

Joseph,  Thanks for the informative post.  The Obama administration is on it's way out for sure, but I am afraid we are already doomed.  Our society is weak willed and unsure of anything.  No common sense anywhere and kid's minds being poisoned by liberal agendas and manipulated media.

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Permalink Reply by David Perotto on August 25, 2015 at 1:29pm

Sadly all recent Presidents continue to push the bounds of their authority and introduce policy in many covert ways. All the while our populace stands by and lets it happen. When do we push back and say enough with this power grab?

The majority of the electorate have no clue what is going on, yet they get to vote. Scary times indeed.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on August 25, 2015 at 9:47pm

I myself wonder why no government subsidy to industries that actually (and constantly) reduce carbon emissions (instead of only those that do so but only on an intermittent basis) ?

Like, why no subsidy to the Natural Gas industry and conversion toward it's use ?

Natural Gas is ours / it's here now / burning it as fuel (instead of oil / diesel / gasoline) reduces carbon emissions by 1/3 (as I understand it).

What's up with that ?

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Permalink Reply by Frank Walker on August 26, 2015 at 12:35am

The green movement, having already had success there, has moved past their "beyond coal" initiative and on to a new "beyond natural gas" movement.  In the UK, the same sort of activists have what they call the "keep it in the ground" program.

Bottom line is their desire to eliminate all fossil fuel use ASAP.  Now ASAP likely will not be very soon.  But you can take this to the bank:  ASAP will be a LOT less than 200 years!!  Yet we as landowners are sitting on a 200 year supply of natural gas.

Remember:  green is the new red.  In-the-shale landowners, absent a massive change in America's leadership (both political parties) and/or full revelation/exposition of the global warming hoax, should try to cash in now.  Prospects for your grandchildren, or even your kids, might not measure up to your hopes and dreams unless things change drastically.  I see no indication of that change on the horizon.

To Joseph-Ohio:

This thread and topic are much appreciated.  Thank you.  I'd like to think this might wake landowners up.  Sadly, I doubt it will.  Most have their heads in the sand or direct their attentions elsewhere.  But you deserve credit for having made the attempt. 

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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on August 26, 2015 at 1:43am

Thinking we're going to need more support than just we landowners to change things (as I believe we're very much in the minority on the grand scale).

We need Public support.

Thinking the Natural Gas Industry could help itself by keeping a good margin between the cost of Natural Gas vs. Electricity and even Diesel and Gasoline as fuels.

Also a Natural Gas advertising / promotional / informational campaign to reach out to the public would be helpful / in order IMO.

Looks like we need as much help as we can get as it appears to me (based on the article) misinformation / misleading special interests may be prevailing.

Keep Natural Gas economical, promote conversion and publicize the truth.

That would be the best medicine IMHO.

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Permalink Reply by Frank Walker on August 27, 2015 at 1:12am

Offering here, from an impeccable, absolutely unimpeachable author, a person of great renown having a splendid reputation, an item providing more perspective on the theme of this thread.

From an author known to many!! 

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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on August 27, 2015 at 10:20pm

Frank Walker,

Thank you for the link to (our publisher's) Keith Mauck's letter.

His letter says it ALL (pertaining to the most severe damage to our domestic energy structure) that has already been done and is being contemplated / discussed / deliberated by those so empowered lawmakers.

Also, IMHO :
 
Disproportionate governmental attention / favor to an insignificant segment of our country's domestic energy production structure strikes at the heart of the debacle;
 
is the way I read it too.
 
The reference projects only a 10% contribution to the U.S.A's. energy consumption by year 2040.
 
A high pitched and extended - Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat ?  Penalize the entire country's energy structure / population for such a little / minor / pee-pee contribution / projected contribution ?  That just doesn't make any sense at all to me.  
 
How about other readers ? 
 
More inverted thinking / action by the empowered is beyond disgusting - more like sickening.
 
Where do they learn to think / behave that way ?
 
From their campaign contributors ?
 
Any feather bedding going on here I wonder ?

Now - how to proceed to bring them all back to reality and working for we the people and OUR country / it's domestic well being / economy / prosperity ?
 
Suggestions please.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on August 27, 2015 at 10:21pm

Why is it that leadership positions are always filled by those who seem / appear to care nothing about our domestic well being / economy / citizenry prosperity and instead, seem to care more / tremendously about all of those things in reference to any other country ?  Seemingly even to the point of sacrificing those things here at home in order to deliver them to foreign states / countries. 

To me that tendency represents the absolute definition of senselessness / stupidity / madness.

It  also seems to me that those that run for offices in our country's government and then end up getting elected are always the ones with the silver spoons in their mouths and are furnished fresh silver spoons (non-stop) by special interests.  This is a sick, sick, sick government if you ask me. 

This system seems bent on destroying the common sense government of our country.

Maybe those empowered within this system find it easier to hoodwink the confused and disoriented so they continue to serve up as much confusion and nonsense as possible.

Maybe it's because the hoodwinkers / radical nonsense generators / silver spooners are encouraged (and paid) throughout their life and looked up to because they seem (to others / the empowered) to be able to fool the most people - which might be thought to be (by the empowered) the signature of great intelligence.  So they proceed to do their best worst and don't really care at all if it runs the country into oblivion doing it.

Unbelievable - but, I do believe - as it seems to be happening and has been happening for quite awhile now - actually for as long as I can remember.

JMHO

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Permalink Reply by Frank Walker on August 28, 2015 at 1:08am

I dunno.  Dude, I don't live in Ohio.  If some day Ohioans cease and desist electing jackasses like drunken crybaby John Boenher to Congress, please get in touch and we can talk.  Until then, things will continues as is.  And while you're at it, you can have a talk with your neighbors across the river in Kentucky, who foolishly again elected that old fart Mitch McConnell to the Senate.  I don't live in Kentucky, either;  it's not my fault.

Thanks to Ohio and Kentucky, the once respectable Republican party has today become "the party of nothing can be done".  The no fight, go along to get along, Republicans in both states disgust me beyond words.  I wonder if any of them draw the line at cutting up babies and selling the parts.  I doubt they do.  The only way to remain on the good side of Republicans in those states is to smile broadly, make no waves, and do whatever the filthy, despicable, Democrats want!!

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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on August 28, 2015 at 1:12am

Dems=Reps=Politicians

They all hatch from identical eggs.

On that basis alone it seems hopeless.

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